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Waits: Arthur Samuel's Checkers


ITS: Arthur Samuel's Checkers Although chess was a popular target, one of the earliest examples of using classical pre-LLM artificial intelligence to play games was checkers/draughts. Arthur Samuel wrote one of the first such programs in the early 1950s, ported this to the PDP-10 when he moved to SAIL and even created a version for a home computer in the late 1970s.

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